contável
Portuguese, adjective/kõˈta.vew/
contável is spelled C-O-N-T-Á-V-E-L (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese, the 139,586th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Contável is a Portuguese feminine adjective meaning “countable (capable of being counted, having a quantity)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que se pode contar”.
What does contável mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculinecountable (capable of being counted, having a quantity)
- 2
femininemasculinecountable (having a bijection with a subset of the natural numbers)
- 3
femininemasculinecountable (able to be used in the plural)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que se pode contar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of contável
- contáveis plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce contável?
- Brazil /kõˈta.vew/
- Brazil [kõˈta.veʊ̯]
- Portugal /kõˈta.vɛl/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to contável
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is contável in Portuguese?
contável appears about once in every 22 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).